Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-05
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1t tUltOWihS ISpUIb U AtUSEnon Hill <
Speech last Tuesday is taken from the
Evening Mail:
| Alderman Hill then rose In his OWE defense
and said MAT so far as the charge by implica-
ton against him was concerned, he deAed any
man 10 prove that he had ever got one cent
from the city he did not honestly earn. He
said when he lett for the north it was intima
ted here that he had skipped to Canada, but
that he had cot; he had stood on the lake shore
and locked at Canada on the other side, but he
was back now. "Si1ce I have come back hear
that theIe was talk o, putt pg me behind the
bars. Put me behind the bars, but If go will
pull SOMEBODY else with me. Here the Al
| deTman made use of language unfit for
publicGtioH). When I was first elected alder
| man, and was chump enough to do what Mayor
Bodies wanted me to do, when was green
enough to pull with him in his effort to get g
salary OF $4,000 year. when any man of COM
mon sense ought to have Known that 1t was
against the Law, was all right; but now, when
| l do not work In with him, l am bounded about
until I am sick and tired of ito
The records, as published, of the doings
OF the present city government have H.
dicated the existence OF "s close cor
poration," wheel within wheel, to
farm out the fGvors and profits Of the
public service. Tie original constitu-
Gion OF the various committees was
regarded as rather prompt evidence
iof the resolve to have ''new
desI," if not OF the actual forma-
ton Of q ring composedof Ger
tain members, constituting & majority,
Of the city government. And this
speech OF Alderman Hill must be regard
ed as "coEfrmation strong as proof OF
holy writ" CT the existence Of such mu-
nicipal ring. From Mr. HilI's vehement
evide2ce II would appear that one "re-
form" to be attained by the political up
heGvsI from which Fort Worth suffered
50 much was the increase of the Mayors |
saIaIy to $4,000.
Whatever may be the criticism Of Al
derman Hiil's judgment ard discretion,
his b0ldness should meet the c0mmenda-
ton Of every taxpayer in Fort Worth.
Nothing could be more frank than Mr.
Hills admission that he had worked with |
Mayor BroIles TO secure the latter
$4,000 salary "knowipg it to be against |
the law" And it must grieve the Mayor,
il his present patriotic attitude, TO hear |
q grave and reverend City Father de-
nouncing himself as KS chump" for hay-
ipg aided and abetted his honor in an IN
lawful attempt to bleEd the taxpayers to
tue tune Of $4,000 annually. But Alderman
HIPS bold ir&nkness does not pause
ct self Instrumentation fer being rs chump."
He goes further, and says ifhe is "put be-
hind the bars he will carry someone else
with him" Whether this significant
threat vas made "iR the heat Of de-
bate" or for cogens reason, IL will be por
uIsrIy construed IS an admission or rs On
accusation, Or as both, and confirms oil
that mas been suspected of the existence
OF municipal ring which was shattered
in the retention OF Mr.. Thomas, who had
ga dead sinch" on someone.
To that "dead sinch" be ali prais
Now, let the grand jury do It's whole duty
not only in behalf of justice and OF the
public, but in behalf OF the members of
the city government themselves. II none
of them are guilty of the laws violation,
the fact should be SO demonstrated that
no one OF them should rest under unjust
suspicious because Of Alderman HiIl's
speech.